Johnson v. United States

Citations

• 228 U.S. 457
• 33 S. Ct. 572
• 57 L. Ed. 919
• 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2386

Syllabus

<p>Courts proceed step by. step. Matter of Harris, 221 U. S'- 274, established- simply that the transfer of books of the bankrupt to the trustee could be required, and left undetermined the question of Use to which the books could be put.</p> <p>A party is privileged from producing his books in a prosecution against himself but is not privileged from their production.</p> <p>A criminal cannot protect himself by getting the legal title to corporate books. Wheeler v. United States, 226 Ú. S. 478.</p> <p>The production of a documentary confession by a third person,-into whose hands it has come alio intuitu, does not-compel the witness to be a witness against himself in violation of the Fifth Amendment. ; On appeal from a conviction, where there is evidence tending to support the finding and no certificate that all the evidence is in the record-, this court is not warranted in declaring, as matter of law, that the Government did not make out a case.</p>